Why I am "here" and not "there"....

[redrocket190]

I am often the first to exercise my 1st amendment right and criticize the US government. But be real clear, things are way better in American than in the country of my birth. And folks (including) wonder why I'll never go back...

1) The U.K. has more surveillance cameras per citizen than anywhere else in the world. In fact, according to one estimate, there are 4.8 million video cameras constantly watching every move citizens make.

2) Government education inspectors in the U.K. have announced that the 40,000 parents who homeschool their own children must undergo criminal records checks.

3) U.K. authorities are now admitting that every phone call, text message, email and website visit made by private citizens will be stored for one year and will be available for monitoring by government agencies.

4) Officials in the U.K. have spent two years and massive amounts of money on a study they claim proves that 10-pin bowling is a health and safety hazard and should be banned.

5) Parents at one school in the U.K. are being forced to undergo background checks to prove that they are not pedophiles before they are allowed to accompany their children to school Christmas carol events.

6) A U.K. Parliamentary briefing note published in November 2009 maintains that the U.K. government has the power to impose nationwide mandatory swine flu vaccinations under the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004.

7) Thousands of "dysfunctional" families in the U.K. are being subjected to intensive 24-hour surveillance to make sure that their children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals. About 2,000 families have already gone through these "Family Intervention Projects", and the U.K. government plans to increase the scope of this program to 20,000 more families over the next two years.

8) A controversial new proposal in the U.K. would force political parties to make Parliament less white, male, middle-class and heterosexual.

9) The U.K.'s new Internet law includes a "three strikes" rule that allows your entire family to be cut off from the Internet if anyone who lives in your house is accused of copyright infringement - without proof or evidence or trial.

10) The U.K. government's obsession with collecting personal data has now extended to 5 year olds, as local Community Health Services are preparing to get parents to reveal the most intimate details of their child’s personal, behavioral and eating habits.

11) The U.K. government is going to make sure that their citizens are "environmentally friendly" whether they like it or not. Under a new government plan, energy experts in the U.K. are going to visit every home in the country in order to "help them go green". As part of "The Great British Refurb", teams of "energy advisers" will go "house by house, street by street" to tell people what they must do in order to become eco-friendly.

12) The U.K. has become absolutely obsessed with garbage, with huge fines imposed on those who do not dispose of their trash in the prescribed manner.

13) The head of the Environment Agency in the U.K. believes that implementing individual carbon allowances for each citizen will be the most effective way of meeting the targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

14) In an almost inconceivable move, personal checks are to be abolished under controversial plans being drawn up by U.K. bankers.

15) It is now illegal to photograph the police in the U.K.

16) In the U.K., the study of evolution is to become a compulsory subject in all state primary schools.

17) The U.K. government is being forced by the European Commission to eliminate exemptions that allow churches to refuse to employ homosexual staff.

18) Parents in the U.K. are about to lose the right to withdraw their child from sex education classes when the child reaches 15 years of age.

19) One mother in the U.K. was trailed by a policeman and formally warned by a local council for telling off her son at a checkout counter.

20) The U.K. is in the process of implementing a "National Identity Card" which will be able to hold fifty different categories of information on each U.K. citizen, including digital facial scans, digital iris scans and up to 10 fingerprints.

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[britincali]

2) Government education inspectors in the U.K. have announced that the 40,000 parents who homeschool their own children must undergo criminal records checks.


5) Parents at one school in the U.K. are being forced to undergo background checks to prove that they are not pedophiles before they are allowed to accompany their children to school Christmas carol events.

7) Thousands of "dysfunctional" families in the U.K. are being subjected to intensive 24-hour surveillance to make sure that their children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals. About 2,000 families have already gone through these "Family Intervention Projects", and the U.K. government plans to increase the scope of this program to 20,000 more families over the next two years.

11) The U.K. government is going to make sure that their citizens are "environmentally friendly" whether they like it or not. Under a new government plan, energy experts in the U.K. are going to visit every home in the country in order to "help them go green". As part of "The Great British Refurb", teams of "energy advisers" will go "house by house, street by street" to tell people what they must do in order to become eco-friendly.

12) The U.K. has become absolutely obsessed with garbage, with huge fines imposed on those who do not dispose of their trash in the prescribed manner.

13) The head of the Environment Agency in the U.K. believes that implementing individual carbon allowances for each citizen will be the most effective way of meeting the targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
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16) In the U.K., the study of evolution is to become a compulsory subject in all state primary schools.


18) Parents in the U.K. are about to lose the right to withdraw their child from sex education classes when the child reaches 15 years of age.



http://futurestorm.blogspot.com/2009/11 ... -most.html

Those ones are all good IMO, and as for the cameras even though I dont agree I still think they are a big aid in stopping crime and finding criminals.

[redrocket190]

Where would you draw the line? If you buy into either a) the government runs things better, makes better choices and/or b) the government can intrude into anything because you shouldn't have anything to hide you end up with a totalitarian state with a central planned economy. Slippery slope my friend and the UK is ahead and accelerating downward.

[DesertCR]

Those ones are all good IMO, and as for the cameras even though I dont agree I still think they are a big aid in stopping crime and finding criminals

You know that if we had the same laws here then you wouldnt have the freedoms you have and would constantly have big brother watching over you. Shoot, you probably wouldnt be able to have them 2strokes you've got. This is definetly what the current administration would love to have here and the country has been moving towards this direction every since the end of WWII.
This list is one of MANY reasons why I wont visit the UK.

[CR500R7]

Not much to look foreward to, is there?

[britincali]

b) the government can intrude into anything because you shouldn't have anything to hide you end up with a totalitarian state with a central planned economy.

Sounds just like the US.......

[CR500R7]

b) the government can intrude into anything because you shouldn't have anything to hide you end up with a totalitarian state with a central planned economy.

Sounds just like the US.......

Sounds like just about anywhere.

[NightBiker07]

Good article. Looks like exactly what the fucking liberals want for this country. I SAY WE DO NOT LET IT HAPPEN! FUCK A TOTALITARIAN STATE.

eh, it has never worked before in history, it ultimately wont work this time either.

[redrocket190]

b) the government can intrude into anything because you shouldn't have anything to hide you end up with a totalitarian state with a central planned economy.

Sounds just like the US.......

There's two fundamental differences. First, I would argue that whatever situation you look at the UK will be found to be relatively less free and more controlled than the US. Hence the need to observe what happens there as a potential outcome here. Second, America has a Constitution that if protected and followed (electorate, congress, executive, judiciary - are you listening????) would guarantee that the excesses in the UK could not happen here. Britain has no constitution and therefore subjects (not citizens - note the difference) only have the "rights" their government (actually the Queen in theory) considers appropriate.